The Social History of Rome

by Géza Alföldy, David Braund (Translator), Frank Polluck (Translator)

Overview

Géza Alföldy provides a succinct chronological introduction to Roman social history from the time of Romulus and Remus to the "last Emperor," Romulus Augustulus. Expanding the focus of some approaches to this subject, Alföldy examines Rome's social structure against the broader and more familiar background of its political history.

This book treats such topics as the structure of archaic Roman society; social changes from the beginning of Roman expansion to the Second Punic War; slave uprisings and other conflicts in the society of the Late Republic; the social system of the early Empire; the crisis of the Roman Empire; and late Roman society to the fall of the Empire.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801837012
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	03/16/1989
Series:	Ancient Society and History
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Géza Alföldy is a professor of ancient history at the University of Heidelberg.

Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition
Preface to the First German Edition (1975)
Chapter 1. Early Roman Society
Chapetr 2. Roman Society from the Beginning of Expansion to the Second Punic War
Chapter 3. The Structural Change of the Second Century BC
Chapter 4. The Crisis of the Republic and Roman Society
Chapter 5. The Social System of the Early Empire
Chapter 6. The Crsis of the Roman Empire and Structural Change in Society
Chapter 7. Late ROman Society
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Index

Editorial Reviews

Excellent discussions of the plebians and their struggle for political recoginiton, the nature of the aristrocracy, the nobles, the economy, the senatorial and equestrian orders with their ladders of promotion, the municipal aristocracy . . . [An] excellent introduction to the subject by a historian of international reputation.
—Classical World

From the Publisher

Excellent discussions of the plebians and their struggle for political recoginiton, the nature of the aristrocracy, the nobles, the economy, the senatorial and equestrian orders with their ladders of promotion, the municipal aristocracy . . . [An] excellent introduction to the subject by a historian of international reputation.

Classical World